THE NATION: Before the Vote

Just as Ohio's Republican Senatorial Candidate George Bender puckered his lips
to begin a curbside television interview in Cleveland, a passerby jeered at him, a
Bender admirer took strenuous offense, and in an instant the cameras were
staring wide-eyed at the best TV fight in a long while. In Pittsburgh,
an orator invoked the gods of Republicanism and was promptly conked on
the head by a picture of Dwight Eisenhower, which fell from the wall.
In New York, Democrat Averell Harriman may have broken a coarse record
by calling the state's G.O.P. leaders liars some 15 times...